the fact that these are the only two name- i unless Nic- olas he an exception; comp. Nicolas) of which we hear again, tends to the conclusion that he was among the ino-t prominent of those so chosen. He was, at any
Jesus — the craving for the means of admission to the blessing ol fellow -hip with the new society the simple
rate, well reported of as •• full of the Holy Ghost, and baptism in the firsl stream or spring the instantaneoi wisdom," and had so won the affections of the great abrupt, departure of the mis-i.mary-preacher, as of one body of believers as to he among the objects of their carried away by a divine impulse these help us to rep- free election, possibly (assuming the votes of the eon- resent to ourselves much of the life and work of that gregation to have been taken for the different candi- remote past. On the hypothesis which has jusl been dale- 1 -a'ming all hut the highest number of suffrages, suggested, we may think of it as being the incident to Whether the office to which he was thus appointed whieh the mind of Philip himself recurred will -i
gave him I he position and the title of a deacon of the satisfaction. A brief sentence tells us thai he continued
Church, or was special and extraordinary in ils eharac- bis work as a preacher al Azotus ( Ashdod), and among
ter. mu-i remain uncertain (Goulbum, Acts ofthi J><n- kmw, I, on, i. 1866 1. See Deacon.
The after-history of Philip warrants the belief, in any
Case, that his Office was not simply that of the later I»i- aconate. ll is no gnat presumption to think of him as contributing hardly less than Stephen to the great in- crease Ol disciples which followed on litis- fresh organi- zation, as sharing in that wider, more expansive leach- ing which -how- itself for the first time iu the oration
the other cities w hich had formerly belonged to the Phi li-li lies, and. following the coast-line, came to (a -an a.
Here tor a long period we lose sight of him. He may have been i here when tin1 new convert Saul passed through on his way to Tarsus (Acts ix, 80). He may have contributed by hi- labor- to the eager desire to be guided farther into the Truth which led to the coiiver- - I I lomelius. \\ e can hardly think of him as giv- ing' up all at once the missionary habits of his life. I .< -
of the protomartyr, and in which he was the forerunner sarea, however, appears to have been the centre of his
of Paul. Wo should expect the man w ho had been his activity. The la-l glimpse of him in the N. T. i- in I he
companion and fellow-worker to g i with the work account of Paul'.- journey to Jerusalem. Ii i- to his
which he had bit unfinished, and to break through the house, a- to one well known to them, that Paul and
barriers of a -imply national Judaism. So according- his companions turn for sh.lt. r. He is still known as
ly we find him in the next stage of his history. The "one of the Seven." His- work has gained for him the
persecution of which Saul was the leader must have \et higher title of Evangelist. See Evangelist. He
stopped tin " daily ministrations" of the Church. The has four .laughters, who possess the gift of prophetic
teaohi i- who had been most prominent were compelled utterance, and who apparently give themselves to the
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work of teaching instead of entering on the life of home (xxi, 8, 9). He is visited by the prophets and elders of Jerusalem. At such a place as Cassarea the work of such a man must have helped to bridge over the ever- widening gap which threatened to separate the Jewish and the Gentile churches. One who had preached Christ to the hated Samaritan, the swarthy African, the despised Philistine, the men of all nations who passed through the seaport of Palestine, might well welcome the arrival of the apostle of the Gentiles. A.U. 55.
The traditions in which the evangelist and the apos- tle who bore the same name are more or less confounded have been given under Philip the Apostle. Accord- ing to another, relating more distinctly to him. he died bishop of Tralles (Acta Sand. June 6). The house in which he and his daughters had lived was pointed out to travellers in the time of Jerome (Epit. Paula, § 8). (Comp. Ewald, Geschichte, vi, 175, 208-214: Baumgar- ten, Apostelgesehichte, § 15, 1G.) — Smith. The later martyrologies, on the contrary, make him end his days in Caesarea (A eta Sand. June (5).
Phil'ip Herod (4>(X(7T7roc 'H»ypa>e>/e), a son of Her- od the Great by Mariamne, the daughter of Simon the high-priest. He was the first husband of Herodias, wdio was taken from him by his brother Herod Antipas (Matt, xiv, 3; Mark, vi, 17; Luke iii, 19). A.U. ante 25. Having been disinherited by his father, Philip ap- pears to have lived a private life. He is called Herod by Josephus (Ant. xvii, 1, 2 ; 4, 2; xviii, 5, 1 ; War. i, 28,4; 30,7). See Herod.
Phil'ip the Tetrakch (<J>i'At7r7roc <J Tirpapxne), tetrarch of Batansea, Trachonitis, and Auranitis (Luke iii, 1); the two latter appear to have been regarded by Luke as included in Itursea. Philip was the son of Her- od the Great by his wife Cleopatra, and own brother of Herod Antipas; at his death his tetrarchy was annexed to Syria. From him the city Caesarea Philippi took its name (Josephus, Ant. xvii, 1,3; xi, 4; xviii, 4, 6; War, i, 28, 4; ii, 6, 3). Philip ruled from B.C. 4 to A.D. 34. See Herod.